Portsoken Ward is an electoral district in the City of London, England. [1] (See also Portsoken). It returns an Alderman and four Councilmen [2] to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation.
Michael Bear became Alderman in 2005 and resigned in 2017. This led to the first Aldermanic election in the City of London Corporation contested by the Labour Party. [3] [4] The election was won by Prem Goyal, founder of the All People's Party, [5] although he stood as an independent. [6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Prem Goyal | 228 | 58.31 | ||
Labour | William Campbell-Taylor | 143 | 36.57 | ||
Independent | David Barker | 20 | 5.12 | ||
Independent | Anthony Samuels | 2 | 0.51 | ||
Turnout | 396 | 61.68 |
The Common Council election in Portsoken Ward recorded the highest turnout in the 2022 Citywide Common Council Elections with 57.6% of the electorate casting their vote. The average turnout across the rest of the City of London was much lower at 36.5%. Two incumbent councillors, Munsur Ali and Jason Paul Pritchard, who were elected as Labour candidates in 2017, stood jointly and were both re-elected. [8] John Fletcher and Henry Jones stood jointly and were both re-elected. [9] Changes in voteshare are by party for the Labour candidates and by candidate for independent candidates who previously stood as independents.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | John Fletcher* | 255 | 21.8 | 4.6 | |
No description | Munsur Ali* | 254 | 21.7 | N/A | |
No description | Jason Paul Pritchard* | 239 | 20.5 | N/A | |
Independent | Henry Jones* | 213 | 18.2 | 1.9 | |
Labour | Lana Joyce | 114 | 9.8 | 10.2 | |
Labour | Dominic Hauschild | 56 | 4.8 | 14.1 | |
Women's Equality | Alison Smith | 37 | 3.2 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,168 | 57.6 | 6.9 | ||
Independent hold | |||||
No descriptiongain from Labour | Swing | – | |||
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Independent hold |
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